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Alaric99x, do you also have relatives who served in the german side? Or the soviet side? Many many Red Army soldiers were sent to the gulag only for what they had seen during the invasion of Germany. The living standard and civilian comparative wealth in Germany shocked the russians, so they had to be "re-educated" or "pacified".

HirooOnoda thanks, I miss my grandfather deerly. He was like a father to me, more than my own father. He never had the opportunity to go back to Estonia since he died jan 1 1991, however his brother in Canada did shortly after its independence. He looked up their old home where they grew up in Tallinn. Get this... the house had recently been sold, the new owners was about to renovate it and had put everything they'd found in the house outside for a yard sale. He found toys from his childhood in those old boxes. The emotional trip was too much for him and he had a heart attack. He didn't dare to seek medical help in Estonia because he was afraid the authorities might send him to Russia (a fear not entirely unfounded) so he flew home without medical attention. He never really recovered from that blow, and died a couple years later in '94. His wife passed away shortly thereafter.